Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Michael Gaine have sealed off an area close to the farmyard where he went missing in Kenmare, Co Kerry, eight weeks ago.

Three Iranian men have been charged with offences under the UK's National Security Act after a major counter terrorism investigation, the Metropolitan police said in a statement.

At 10am next Tuesday morning, a 14-year-old girl will begin a 50-hour sleepout protest outside the Dáil.

A day later than expected, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met face-to-face in Istanbul yesterday for the first time in more than three years.

Nine people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on a minibus carrying civilians in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, the local military administration said.